Sept. 1, 2026

The Blues Brothers (1980)

The Blues Brothers (1980)
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Season 6

"They'll never get caught. They're on a mission from God." In this episode, guest host "Dub" Carpenter joins Bill to discuss the comedy musical, 'The Blues Brothers.' The movie stars John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. Co-written and directed by John Landis.

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Hello and welcome to the All 80s.

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Movies Podcast, the podcast where we talk about the blockbusters,

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the flops, and everything in between from one of the

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freshest decades from movies, the 1980s. On host Bill Banton,

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along with me on this journey, revisiting 80s movies, is

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my guest host, Dub Carpenter. Hello, Dub.

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It's 106 miles to Chicago. We got a full tank

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of gas, a half pack of cigarettes. It's dark out,

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and we're wearing sunglasses.

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That's right, listeners. We're discussing with Spores the Plenty, the

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1980 musical comedy, The Blues Brothers. It was produced by

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Robert K. Weiss and distributed by Universal Pictures. The movie

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stars John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, and Cab Calloway. Co-written and

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directed by John Landis, this movie is rated R with

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a running time of 2 hours and 13 minutes. The

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movie is based on characters developed from the recurring musical

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sketch The Blues Brothers on NBC's Saturday Night Live. So,

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what is this movie about? What's on the box? If

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you grew up in the 1980s and went to your

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local video store to rent this movie, you would find

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this description on the back of the VHS box. It

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is What's on the box? Take it away, Dub.

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The Blues Brothers is a unique and outrageously funny musical

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comedy with a spectacular action. It's the story of Jake

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and Elwood Blues, two hoodlum brothers searching for redemption, who

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set out to locate and relist the members of their

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defunct Rhythm and Blues band, In order to raise some

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honest money, the band members have straight jobs now and

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are reluctant to leave, but Jake and Elwood convince them

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to come along. The brothers, however, just can't seem to

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follow the straight and narrow as the troubles mount and

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the hydrants increase. The Blues Brothers.

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The Blues Brothers. Dub, thanks so much for being here,

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being on the show, the All 80s Movies Podcast. Just

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so you know, audience background, Dub and I have known

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each other for at least 30 years. Yes, we have.

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And we met right out of college. And we worked

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together on an entertainment company out of Orlando called Sports Magic.

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And we used to do a Blues Brothers routine. How

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many times do you think that got on ESPN for

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sports highlights?

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Minimum two to three over the span. We would get

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lucky because who doesn't like the Blues Brothers back in

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those days?

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Exactly. So if you would watch the opening credits of

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ESPN in the mid-90s, you might have saw Dub and

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I doing the Blues Brothers, usually with Billy the Marlin

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from the now Florida Marlins. And you can actually find

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a picture of us in the 1997 World Series program,

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where I would play Elwood, Dub would play Jake. And

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what were some of the routines or songs that we

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would do usually? Do you remember?

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Sure. Soul Man was always a popular one.

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Yes.

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I also remember us one time... You got to understand

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that the Marlins, before the games would start, there'd be

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some kind of entertainment going on. And we actually... You

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and I did a karaoke to Stand By Your Man. Yes.

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Was the one that we did before. And then... I

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know there was one more. Because we did the get-together

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at the center like they do in the final stage movie.

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We kind of danced down the stage together. We mocked

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that up as a part of the show.

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I think Shake Your Tail Feather. Yep, another one as well.

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Because you were trying to figure out some of those

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dances that is mentioned. What's a Watusi? How do you

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do the Watusi? A mashed potato?

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How about a twist?

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Yeah, man.

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Again, I was very honored for us to think about,

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I know you guys can't see us, but definitely at

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that time and even today, I think I look a

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little bit shapely like Jake. And you always, again, taller

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than me and Yeah, man, if you can find that

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footage on ESPN or somewhere, go deep cut. I think

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we pulled off the look. We actually had to glue

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sideburns on the side of our faces. And again, it's

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like 100 degrees heat and those things start peeling off.

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And yeah, man, great times, great times for us to

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be able to do this. And this has obviously been

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a I'm so appreciative to be able to do the

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show with you because this is something very near and

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dear to my heart even before we met. So good times.

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Yeah, and when I was thinking of doing this movie,

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I was like, there's no one I can find better

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to talk to the Blues Brothers than with Dub. So, Dub,

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do you remember the first time you saw this movie,

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the Blues Brothers?

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Okay, so my memory of this is you got to

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go back, obviously, in time. We're in the early 80s.

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HBO is, like, kind of just coming out. You've got

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Friday night was the premiere night for, like, the movies

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that would then roll out and hit. So I would

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have to say that's when I saw it. It was

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a Friday night. I had to have been, like, We're

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talking 80s. So I was still like maybe fifth, sixth

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grade or something like that when this came out. That's

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my first recollection in memory of it.

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Yeah, I think my dad introduced me to this one.

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And it was the same thing. It was either TV

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or cable, probably HBO, when I saw it the first time.

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And then he asked me to record it for him.

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This is one of my dad's top 10 favorite movies.

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And all his movies that he loves seems to involve music.

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Eddie and the Cruisers, Blues Brothers. That's his wheelhouse, especially

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if it's stuff before 1980. That's what he was into.

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And I think I initially saw Bits and Pieces of

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it first. I can't remember the first time I saw

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it from... beginning to end, but when I did, yeah,

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this was definitely a movie I would watch a ton

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of times, and one of my favorites, and imitation is

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the best form of flattery, and you and I certainly

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did that many a time.

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It's funny that, if I look back now, how many

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things initially in this movie might have gone over my head,

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just lines like, prophylactic? Like, what's that? You know? Like, oh!

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And then, fast forward ten years, like, oh, I now

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get that joke.

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So.

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I remember when Jake signs his name with the X

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and I had to ask my parents, why did he

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sign an X? What does an X mean? And they

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had to explain to them that maybe he doesn't know

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how to write his name. Like, how does he not

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know to write his name? I'm 11 years old. I

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know how to write mine. So you get that whole conversation.

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Yep.

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So yeah, let's talk about the movie. What is it

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about this movie that you love? Just what makes it memorable?

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That kind of thing.

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For me, I've got a bit of a musical theater background.

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Just growing up, I sang all the time, whether it

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was listening to music or theater in high school. So

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the fact that this film, one thing that stuck out

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to me is that it has a little bit of

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theater as it's produced. If you think about when some

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of the songs break out, there's choreography, there's dancing, and

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it kind of happens. So the fact that that piece,

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I think really as a kid, I just found that

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really entertaining and how it all kind of weaved together

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and the dancing with the Ray Charles and that whole

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They were just talking about the mashed potatoes and stuff

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like that with all the kids. Again, and it was

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just so funny. Line after line after line after line

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after line. I'm a quote guy. I may not tell

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you who the director is or pull that actor out

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of your head, but I can do, you know, cop shocks,

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cop brakes. It was made for catalytic converters, so it

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runs good on regular gas. There was always something that

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I just hung on to almost like every single scene.

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Fix the cigarette lighter. That's just really what hooked me

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into this film.

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I would say the one quote when I hear the

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movie always makes me think of you is Arnt Whipp.

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Because I remember we would go out, as soon as

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we would sit down, you would point to all of

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us and go, orange whip, orange whip, orange whip. Have

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you ever had an orange whip?

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I have never had an orange whip.

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Yeah, me neither.

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And I'm sure there's someone out there who's with us

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in that space. Anytime you go down, there's orange whip,

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orange whip, orange whip. And there's people you connect with.

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I got family members. Anytime I go, it's an automatic.

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We just fall back and we do that.

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Yeah. In the movie, the first time, did you know

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who any of those– Singers were like Cat Calloway or

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James Brown. So it's funny.

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I was I was thinking about that. Aretha Franklin, for sure.

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James Brown, for sure. Tab Calloway, probably a stretch. John

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Lee Hooker. probably know that would probably been a first timer.

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I knew of them, but like, did I know, obviously

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I feel good, you know, James Brown, who wouldn't have

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known that song before that start, but then to connect, Oh,

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that's the guy, right. You know, who's in the church

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doing his moves like, okay, that then, Oh wow, this

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is kind of cool. They're bringing in these artists, which

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I think before that time of all the movies that

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would have watched, there wasn't that, I would say that

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kind of crossover, if you will, we are taking an

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actual musical artist that I could remember and, And throwing

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him right into a show, a movie, as a legitimate

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character when it's all said and done.

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Yeah.

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And what did you think of their acting? So.

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James Brown, they picked the right guy for that right role.

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You know what I mean? Do you see the light?

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You know, that energy. And I woke up this morning,

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I heard a disturbing sound. I think even Cab Calloway,

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I think his character, I mean, for who he was,

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and I think it was a perfect fit along those lines. Aretha,

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you know, I think the action piece, maybe a little

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rough around the edges, but I think I'm stretching for

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maybe to nitpick something at that point. I think they

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just did a nice job of putting the right people

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in the right places.

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Yeah, I really thought everyone held their own. There wasn't

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anyone that I was kind of like, yeah, maybe you

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should give that line to someone else. I mean, we

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knew the performance was going to be top notch, but

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then with their acting, I thought everyone was pretty solid.

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Yeah, I think if you need to like get in

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the weeds, I think some of the band members, you know,

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when they had their lines, it was kind of like, oh, yeah,

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that this one or two. And it's like, all right,

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we're just going to take that cut. We're going to

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move on. Yeah.

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Just keep it easy. Keep it simple. If you don't

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do it right, we'll just have someone else say your line.

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Right.

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Yeah, I thought the band was okay, too. They can

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play their instruments way better than they can act, that's

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for sure.

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Right.

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Was there a standout character for you in this movie?

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Standout character. Meaning, like, someone who, like, kind of stole

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the spotlight away from the two main characters?

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Or one of the main two characters, or someone that

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you really connected with.

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I just really think it was so well put together from,

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the pacing. There wasn't really a lull. In this movie,

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there was just always some quality content. As I mentioned,

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there's always some kind of line or some kind of

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thing that you kind of catch along the way. Again,

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I think the chemistry between obviously Jake and Elwood, I

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think you could legitimately say they were probably brothers, just

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the way they, you know, one personality kind of was

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maybe a little bit more intense in certain spots than

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the other.

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What about you? I mean, is there someone that you

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think shined a little bit more than the rest?

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I'm not going to say this just because I got

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to play this character, but Dan Aykroyd as Elwood. I

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was really thinking about Dan Aykroyd's filmography when I was

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watching this movie. And I was like, this is the

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type of character I like that Dan Aykroyd plays. It's...

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Over-the-top things are happening around him all the time throughout

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this movie, and he just plays it straight. And that

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even made me think of him in Ghostbusters, Ray Stantz.

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He's excited about the world of the supernatural, but to him,

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it just seems normal. The movies that I like Dan

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Aykroyd in is he's just a regular person who all

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these crazy things are happening around him, and he just

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knows how to deal with it. It's like, okay, we're

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being chased by the police. All right, I'm just going

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to drive through a mall. A house blows up and

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falls on him, and he just gets up and brushes

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himself off and moves on. That's the kind of stuff

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I find funny. It's someone acting normal in extraordinary situations,

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and he pulls it off to a T. So does Belushi, but...

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that really made me think about what I like about Ackroyd,

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and this is the epitome of that.

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I got to agree with you 100%. I mean, he is, like,

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he's the steady Eddie. He's the one, if you think

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about it, he's the anchor. To your point, he sees

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this kind of silver lining in everything. Hey, we need

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to go see the Penguin. This is the right thing

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to do. We're on a mission from God. He's kind

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of the North Star. Even when they fall from the

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telephone booth, he's like, it's got to be at least

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$ 7 worth of change here. Like, it doesn't matter that, like,

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they've just dropped and the politicians hurt themselves. He's always finding, like,

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what's the good in the situation.

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So.

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Yeah, that's the kind of humor that I like. You

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just put yourself in weird circumstances and that's just normal

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to me. It's like being on The Muppet Show. You're

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surrounded by Muppets, but you treat them just like they're

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normal people. And that's kind of what this movie kind

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of does for me. Okay, so what do you like

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most about the movie? Is it the comedy? Is it

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maybe the action? Is it the musical numbers? What is

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it that really resonates when you think about this movie?

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If I was to stack rank, I think comedy one

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and music would be two. In every scene, there's a nugget.

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There's not something tangible there that you can either remember,

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hang on to, or resonate with. And then as I mentioned,

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the music piece, the way it's set up, you know,

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as I mentioned, kind of the first half has that

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kind of musical theater take to it, those first four, five,

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six scenes. And then it kind of organically transitions into

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the actual concert scenes or music scenes. And again, it

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seems all very natural, but like who's not going to remember,

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you know, Rowdy Yates when they start playing that song

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or Stand By Your Man. Side story here, taking Blues

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Brothers to another level, went on a cruise. I got

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a friend of mine who actually plays the harmonica. He

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brings them with him wherever he goes. And we actually

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wound up doing karaoke. So we did Sweet Home Chicago

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was the tune that we did. And for those who

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can't tell from sitting way out there in the ether,

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I can actually still do a back handspring. So we

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did that actually on the cruise. And it was just

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one of those just to go back to the music

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still carries a big part of what this film does.

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We made it to the final round and we didn't

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pick the right song and we lost to someone who

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did Stevie Wonder. But Blues Brothers, anytime there's a chance

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to do karaoke, it's one of those automatic, like, how

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can we fit this in?

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Right. Yeah, I do think it's comedy first. I would

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say as a kid, it was the action and then

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the music. So I would still say comedy first, now

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music second, and probably action third. And I think another

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thing I really enjoyed watching at this time was the

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way that movie opens and you see the city of

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Chicago and you're like, wait a second, this is supposed

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to be a musical comedy and it's just bleak industrial town.

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And then we see Belushi. Walking down through the prison,

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you're like, what is going on here? And it's really

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not until Frank Oz shows up with the box and

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looks at the guards and they pull him back. And

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then that's when you're like, oh, okay, here's where the

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comedy starts. I was just surprised there's really no music.

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No, I'm glad you're calling it out because we watched

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it again with fresh eyes after a handful of years.

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Same sentiment. I'm like, wow, this is really kind of

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a gross start to the film because it is that

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grimy of a scene. And then to your point, there's

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no dialogue for it. Who knows, like two, three some

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odd minutes. It's just him walking through in the steps, tick, tick, tick, tick,

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tick through the hallways.

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And just all the like the little things throughout the

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movie that I'm like, oh, my God, that was just

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so smart for them to think about that. When they

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go visit the penguin and they're in the tiny little

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desks and she's like, boys, move to me. And they're like,

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slide and slide. You know, they didn't write that on

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the page. They had to be in there on the

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set and go, this is what we're going to do. Or,

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you know, just like subtle shots of stuff that they

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were just catching and just like, oh my God, this

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is just so smart how they came up with some

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of these shots and some of the comedy. Did they

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decide when they were filming that Belushi's going to throw

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the lighter out the window?

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Out the window, right.

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Yeah, I'm like, well, you can't fix it now. You

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just threw the lighter out the window. Or even the

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car itself, just absolutely. on the dashboard, how it's all dirty,

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and then they have the empty pack of cigarettes. So

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when they're racing the car, you just see it sliding across,

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sliding across, and you're just like, okay, he must really

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be behind that wheel driving that. Or he's in a car,

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at least, that's maybe on a rig, and they're whipping

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those guys around. That kind of stuff I really caught

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watching this time. I just thought it was a lot

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of fun.

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Well, to go back to the Penguin reference, the whole...

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what's the word I'm looking for? I'll just say squirrely

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for lack of a better term, but you know, which

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is I'm so disappointed in you boys. And then she

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just kind of does that, that float back. Like, yes.

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Okay.

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We're just going to be goofballs sometimes in this movie.

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You know, there's just some stuff that is just like

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ridiculous and it just still seems to fit. You don't

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question it. It's just kind of, Oh, that's kind of,

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that's kind of funny, you know, which I think keeps

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the entertainment going.

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Yeah. There was definitely a lot of over the top moments,

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a lot of stuff with the cars that defy physics,

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but somehow you, buy it and it's funny like yeah

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then jumping over the the bridge in the beginning i'm

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like uh yeah he would have smashed his car right

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in the side of the bridge it was too far

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up it's still fun to see that he makes that

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jump other cars.

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Saying is whether being chased by the nazis and then

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obviously in just the cars falling yes way above the

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city skyline just falling and falling and falling it's like what's.

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Going on here you know yeah and you're thinking okay

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that's not CGI, they had to take that car up

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there somehow and drop it from something. How did they

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do that? They drop it off a plane? They lift

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it by a helicopter? That's what I wanted to know.

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So last question before we get into the favorite scenes.

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Okay.

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So the movie clocks in at 2 hours and 13 minutes,

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which is long for an 80s movie. You usually don't

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see a comedy musical over 2 hours. Did you think

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it was too long? I mean, today's movies, everything seems

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to be over 2 hours. But for that movie, did

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you think the running time was too long?

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No. I don't. I think, as I mentioned before, I

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think the way the movies put together. the pacing, the structure.

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You know, you take it through the journey. All right,

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pick up my brother. Okay, we're going to meet the penguin. Okay,

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that's the catalyst for the adventure. All right, now we're

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going to put the band back together. Putting the band

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back together, that's anyone that would take time to run

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the people down, two or three days, and then to

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convince the people to come. And then, okay, now the

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adventure ensues. And then along the way, you not only

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upset one form of law enforcement, but multiple forms of

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law enforcement, plus the Illinois Nazis.

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The good old ones.

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Snowball, snowball, snowball.

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Yeah.

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The good old boys. They've got three people chasing them

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before this is all said and done. Just the ridiculousness

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of it all. When I watched it this last go-around,

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I couldn't believe I was already halfway through, and it's

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only been a couple minutes to me. So it kind

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of sucks you in, so you don't notice the time passing.

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The last time I watched it, when they're finally performing...

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And I was like, all right, how much time's left

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in this movie after this? And there was still almost

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a half hour. I was like, holy moly. They're supposed

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to do the big show to collect the money, and

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there's still a lot of movie to go. This is nuts,

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but didn't bother me at all, that's for sure. All right,

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let's move into our favorite scenes or moments. So, Dub,

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start us off. What are some of your favorite scenes

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or moments from the Blues Brothers?

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All right, so I think the one that has historically resonated,

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it originates with the line, but it's the Skamads scene.

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They get pulled over. Who knows what time of the

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night it is. I've been pulled over in six months,

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which kind of goes to the whole, like, this is

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just kind of a normal routine for Elwood to get

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caught up in this business. But that's the state, county,

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municipal offenders data system, that line and that. I break

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out of the joint, put me right back in there.

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They can't stop us. We're on a mission from God.

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That's the kickoff. That's a kickoff for the chase for

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the rest of the film. So I think that's why

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I like it so much. It's got a line. It's

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got a funny moment. And obviously initiates the chase throughout

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the rest of the film.

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Yeah, I think what I liked about that scene was first,

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I was like, what are they doing in that neighborhood?

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That was a pretty nice neighborhood they were in. And

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then when the troopers, when he's running his license, it

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was like parking violations, 119, 56 traffic violations. And right away,

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Elwood's like, we're out of here. And then it turns

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into one of the most memorable chases through a mall

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that has not been replicated or duplicated.

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Again, the chase, the chase. There's your kind of, I guess,

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your first official action scene happens in that moment, going

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through the parking lot, whipping around. And then, like you said,

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the whole mall.

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And I don't know how many times, because of this movie,

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when I go through a traffic light and it's yellow,

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I literally say out loud, the light was huge. sir

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i'll say officer yes if there's someone in the car

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with me i will say that every time the light

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was yellow sir definitely.

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Resonates with me what about you buddy what's one of

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your scenes.

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I would have to say When the Brothers Meet the Penguin,

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because I was Catholic at the time, and I think

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it was the first time I've ever heard a nun

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being referenced as a penguin. So I wasn't sure at

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first what that was. And Kathleen Freeman, who plays Sister

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Mary Stigmata, she's only in this movie for five minutes.

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And growing up Catholic, she left such an impression. And

459
00:20:26.859 --> 00:20:29.329
just the whole, they go up to her office, they

460
00:20:29.369 --> 00:20:31.349
go to knock on the door. She's like, who is it?

461
00:20:31.450 --> 00:20:33.710
The door opens by itself. And like you said, even

462
00:20:33.750 --> 00:20:35.930
at the end when she admonishes them and she just

463
00:20:35.970 --> 00:20:38.250
puts her hands up to her chest and slowly floats

464
00:20:38.329 --> 00:20:42.619
back and the door closes, that scene just sticks with me. And,

465
00:20:42.630 --> 00:20:45.539
you know, she's putting everything in motion. Even though she

466
00:20:45.579 --> 00:20:49.349
knows these guys are hoodlums, she knows... They're the two

467
00:20:49.549 --> 00:20:51.309
she needs to get help from. They're those two that

468
00:20:51.329 --> 00:20:53.210
can make it happen. And she just doesn't want to

469
00:20:53.250 --> 00:20:54.150
know how they're going to do it.

470
00:20:54.410 --> 00:20:56.950
To piggyback on that, that scene is when they start

471
00:20:56.970 --> 00:21:00.609
kind of dropping F-bombs and S-bombs. And then she breaks

472
00:21:00.650 --> 00:21:04.240
the ruler over Elwood's head. That is just classic. And

473
00:21:04.259 --> 00:21:06.339
then they're trying to make their way. And then she

474
00:21:06.380 --> 00:21:08.119
pulls out, I don't know what it was.

475
00:21:08.140 --> 00:21:09.940
Oh, I don't know what that rod was either. It

476
00:21:09.960 --> 00:21:10.539
wasn't a sword.

477
00:21:10.940 --> 00:21:13.279
But it was something big and heavy, and she starts

478
00:21:13.559 --> 00:21:16.069
whacking him. And then you think about, I guess, one

479
00:21:16.089 --> 00:21:18.150
of those trivia questions, like, did Jake really do the

480
00:21:18.210 --> 00:21:21.450
fall or not down the stairs? But, like, that whole, like,

481
00:21:21.529 --> 00:21:24.450
bailing down, you know, that many flights in the chair

482
00:21:24.930 --> 00:21:27.359
was one of those, like, whoa, you know, an impressive,

483
00:21:27.880 --> 00:21:30.440
you know, stunt at that time. But, you know, another

484
00:21:30.460 --> 00:21:32.779
part of that scene that sticks in my head is

485
00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:35.339
that ruler just snapping over Elwood's head. This is classic.

486
00:21:35.720 --> 00:21:37.420
Well, I did read somewhere that he did get hurt

487
00:21:37.460 --> 00:21:40.539
doing that fall, but I don't know from where. Maybe

488
00:21:41.700 --> 00:21:43.440
it was the stuntman doing the fall when you do

489
00:21:43.460 --> 00:21:44.180
the wide shot.

490
00:21:44.509 --> 00:21:44.730
Right.

491
00:21:45.049 --> 00:21:47.029
And then it does the breakaway when he rolls to

492
00:21:47.049 --> 00:21:49.589
the ground. You're still in a chair that breaks around you.

493
00:21:49.609 --> 00:21:51.670
If it hits you wrong in the back, you get hurt.

494
00:21:51.829 --> 00:21:55.430
So he was involved in that at some point. All right.

495
00:21:55.890 --> 00:21:58.000
Back to you. You have another favorite scene or moment?

496
00:21:58.500 --> 00:22:01.359
Back to me. You got to love Bob's country bunker.

497
00:22:01.380 --> 00:22:03.240
Hell yeah. Oh, jeez.

498
00:22:03.769 --> 00:22:08.190
Just from Jake trying to do a country accent, like, oh, yeah,

499
00:22:08.230 --> 00:22:12.329
we've been here for a while. Bob, this is the band. Also,

500
00:22:12.349 --> 00:22:15.150
they're classic. We have both kinds, country and western.

501
00:22:15.170 --> 00:22:15.779
Love that line.

502
00:22:16.119 --> 00:22:19.819
Just another classic nugget that kicks off that scene. And

503
00:22:19.839 --> 00:22:22.500
I think that's also, again, another favorite scene is because

504
00:22:22.579 --> 00:22:26.019
then the whole Rowdy Yates, the rawhide theme. I remember

505
00:22:26.079 --> 00:22:28.910
as a kid... Couldn't tell you who Rowdy Yates was,

506
00:22:29.089 --> 00:22:31.599
but singing through high school, middle school, that was a

507
00:22:31.630 --> 00:22:34.839
song I always wanted to kind of do. And then

508
00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:37.920
obviously a great, that's more of an Elwood song. moment

509
00:22:38.140 --> 00:22:40.710
for him his voice is perfect for that the whole

510
00:22:40.769 --> 00:22:43.349
whip and then the gal smoking the cigarette and snapping

511
00:22:43.369 --> 00:22:45.690
out of her hands like just these small little goofy

512
00:22:45.730 --> 00:22:49.119
little nuances and then obviously stand by your man being

513
00:22:49.130 --> 00:22:51.160
a whole this one favorite of the horn section hope

514
00:22:51.180 --> 00:22:53.019
it's one of yours and um you know the guy

515
00:22:53.059 --> 00:22:56.319
sipping the beer being all alone and everybody's hugging and

516
00:22:56.339 --> 00:22:58.980
kissing on each other Each scene, that one in particular,

517
00:22:59.009 --> 00:23:01.309
it's just got so much in it. And then obviously

518
00:23:01.329 --> 00:23:03.130
the end, if you think about it, we've gone from

519
00:23:03.170 --> 00:23:06.130
running away from cops. Now we're someplace else. And now

520
00:23:06.150 --> 00:23:08.470
we're the good old boys coming to the mix. And Bob,

521
00:23:08.509 --> 00:23:11.609
the owner, is now like, we're going to get those guys.

522
00:23:11.690 --> 00:23:14.150
And it's just got so much. And that's one reason

523
00:23:14.170 --> 00:23:14.970
why I like that scene.

524
00:23:15.619 --> 00:23:18.819
And then at the end, $ 300 a beer. And they

525
00:23:18.859 --> 00:23:21.160
were getting $ 200 for the gig. And of course, they

526
00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:23.680
have no money. they got to take off. They're supposed

527
00:23:23.700 --> 00:23:26.240
to get $ 5, 000 and they're already in the hole 100.

528
00:23:26.220 --> 00:23:27.259
In the hole.

529
00:23:27.680 --> 00:23:28.759
But they're on a mission from God.

530
00:23:29.180 --> 00:23:31.400
I think the other part of that scene is the

531
00:23:31.660 --> 00:23:35.960
chicken wire. The fact that they threw so much glass

532
00:23:36.359 --> 00:23:39.279
exploding in their faces while they're performing. You know, as

533
00:23:39.299 --> 00:23:41.869
a kid, like, oh my gosh, there's places like they're

534
00:23:41.900 --> 00:23:44.849
doing this? Is this like a real thing that could happen? Yeah,

535
00:23:45.029 --> 00:23:47.450
those lights are off for a reason. There's another line

536
00:23:47.490 --> 00:23:48.809
that comes in on that.

537
00:23:49.109 --> 00:23:52.859
Yeah, there's one shot I think it's from the side,

538
00:23:53.420 --> 00:23:56.470
and that one bottle comes at Dan Aykroyd's face, and

539
00:23:56.630 --> 00:23:59.250
he kind of pre-turns, and he almost kind of smiles.

540
00:23:59.430 --> 00:24:01.569
He's like, oh, whoever threw that one threw it well.

541
00:24:01.829 --> 00:24:02.549
Yeah.

542
00:24:02.589 --> 00:24:05.430
Hopefully it's fake glass that they're throwing, but yeah, some

543
00:24:05.450 --> 00:24:07.710
of that could still get in your eye. I mean,

544
00:24:08.210 --> 00:24:13.420
they're wearing sunglasses, but Bob Country Bunker, that scene is amazing.

545
00:24:13.500 --> 00:24:14.099
I love that scene.

546
00:24:14.339 --> 00:24:14.519
Yeah.

547
00:24:14.819 --> 00:24:16.720
For me, the mall chase itself, we kind of talked

548
00:24:16.759 --> 00:24:20.490
on this already with the scamans, but just... In fact,

549
00:24:20.509 --> 00:24:23.609
they're in the parking lot. Jake is yelling at Elwood

550
00:24:23.990 --> 00:24:26.029
about not wanting to go back to prison to get

551
00:24:26.069 --> 00:24:28.089
him out of here. And Elwood's like, okay, if that's

552
00:24:28.109 --> 00:24:30.859
what you want me to do. And then literally driving

553
00:24:30.890 --> 00:24:34.420
through Toys R Us and then taking out that mall.

554
00:24:34.759 --> 00:24:37.880
It's a pretty good chase. And just destroying everything in

555
00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:40.759
the meantime and pointing things out. Jake and Elwood seem

556
00:24:40.779 --> 00:24:43.019
like this is not the first time they've driven through

557
00:24:43.059 --> 00:24:46.619
a mall like this, wreaking havoc. And then at the end,

558
00:24:47.049 --> 00:24:50.259
just going through the front of JCPenney. and getting away.

559
00:24:50.660 --> 00:24:52.200
I was worried watching it this time. I'm like, oh,

560
00:24:52.259 --> 00:24:54.640
I wonder if the chase won't be as effective because,

561
00:24:54.779 --> 00:24:57.400
I mean, there's been so much chase scenes in cinema

562
00:24:57.440 --> 00:24:59.740
since then, but I'm still like, oh, no, this is

563
00:24:59.759 --> 00:25:01.789
still pretty good. It's still pretty good how they make

564
00:25:01.829 --> 00:25:04.150
this happen. I was kind of surprised they destroyed the

565
00:25:04.289 --> 00:25:06.890
music shop, though. I thought for sure maybe they would

566
00:25:06.910 --> 00:25:08.809
have thrown in a line or something about driving over

567
00:25:08.849 --> 00:25:11.430
the drums, but yeah, I think it's still a really

568
00:25:11.829 --> 00:25:14.619
fun set piece action scene.

569
00:25:14.619 --> 00:25:17.240
100% agree. I think it also goes back to reinforcing

570
00:25:17.380 --> 00:25:21.039
the This is normal. You talked about early about Dan

571
00:25:21.079 --> 00:25:23.609
Aykroyd's character. Just go past here because I got this

572
00:25:23.650 --> 00:25:26.769
place has got everything. They're just going through the motions,

573
00:25:26.849 --> 00:25:29.150
you know, and the cops are the ones that are

574
00:25:29.170 --> 00:25:31.349
kind of all over the place and disheveled. And it

575
00:25:31.390 --> 00:25:33.839
seems like there's a plan, even though there isn't one

576
00:25:33.880 --> 00:25:36.079
in that moment. Like you said, but the casual call

577
00:25:36.119 --> 00:25:38.380
out of what's going on. I'm even like when I'm

578
00:25:38.400 --> 00:25:41.519
watching this now, like, OK, what stores were actually in

579
00:25:41.579 --> 00:25:44.960
place at that time? Yes. Was that a specific Illinois

580
00:25:45.140 --> 00:25:47.920
franchise that was in that space? Obviously, Toys R Us.

581
00:25:48.220 --> 00:25:51.210
Great scene going in. Hello, do you have a Miss Piggy? Boom.

582
00:25:51.289 --> 00:25:54.410
And then it just runs. That's another one whenever I'm

583
00:25:54.470 --> 00:25:56.210
at a store standing in some place. Hey, do you

584
00:25:56.230 --> 00:25:57.890
have a Miss Piggy? I go to a line. You're

585
00:25:57.910 --> 00:26:00.089
at the stoplight. That's the Miss Piggy.

586
00:26:00.309 --> 00:26:03.630
Hilarious. All right, back to you. Favorite scene or moment

587
00:26:03.650 --> 00:26:04.390
you want to share with us?

588
00:26:04.990 --> 00:26:07.529
James Brown Church. That's the next one here. I know

589
00:26:07.549 --> 00:26:10.730
we kind of chronologically went out of sorts here. That's fine.

590
00:26:11.230 --> 00:26:14.099
The music background that I have, and there was just

591
00:26:14.170 --> 00:26:18.140
something about the gospel piece of that. And then, you know,

592
00:26:18.220 --> 00:26:20.519
all of a sudden he gets hit by the light.

593
00:26:20.539 --> 00:26:23.259
The clouds open up, the big dramatic, just like in

594
00:26:23.339 --> 00:26:26.420
all the whatever historical films, like the light breaks through.

595
00:26:26.440 --> 00:26:29.660
And do you see the light? Just the energy of that,

596
00:26:29.700 --> 00:26:33.250
the dancing, the over the top, the guys flipping in

597
00:26:33.269 --> 00:26:35.130
the air. And as a kid, I'm like, are they

598
00:26:35.230 --> 00:26:37.589
doing all those trampolines? They got to be using trampolines, right,

599
00:26:37.609 --> 00:26:40.569
to do that move. James Brown character just at the

600
00:26:40.609 --> 00:26:44.430
beginning and then the cameo. So who's the cameo in the,

601
00:26:44.549 --> 00:26:49.059
who's the musical artist that does the cameo? Chaka Khan. Yes.

602
00:26:49.099 --> 00:26:52.819
There you go. So it's one of those like who,

603
00:26:53.039 --> 00:26:55.039
like you're saying, Oh my gosh, I think that's, that's

604
00:26:55.079 --> 00:26:58.869
Chaka Khan. Just another layer of the music, the right

605
00:26:58.900 --> 00:27:02.410
talent of the kind of theatrical performance and choreography part

606
00:27:02.430 --> 00:27:05.049
of that dance. And then being someone who did gymnastics

607
00:27:05.089 --> 00:27:07.549
as a child, and as I mentioned, still pulling it

608
00:27:07.609 --> 00:27:09.589
off in adulthood to a certain range, him doing the

609
00:27:09.630 --> 00:27:13.599
back handsprings down the aisle and then doing his, you know,

610
00:27:13.680 --> 00:27:15.960
flipping to do kind of scoot, doot, and dance thing

611
00:27:16.240 --> 00:27:18.519
was just something I got that's so cool. It's like,

612
00:27:18.819 --> 00:27:21.579
that's why I would connect with Jake because he's a

613
00:27:21.599 --> 00:27:23.000
guy who could do that and I can do that.

614
00:27:23.099 --> 00:27:24.039
So there you go.

615
00:27:24.440 --> 00:27:25.509
So you're perfectly cast.

616
00:27:25.900 --> 00:27:27.829
I'm perfectly cast. Thank you, sir.

617
00:27:29.390 --> 00:27:32.369
I just remember watching it the first time. Like I said,

618
00:27:32.390 --> 00:27:35.599
being Catholic, And watching this, I'm like, is there really

619
00:27:35.660 --> 00:27:37.940
mass like this? Because Catholic mass is one of the

620
00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:41.420
most boring ordeals you have to go through as a kid.

621
00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:44.369
And then seeing something like this, where everybody's up and

622
00:27:44.430 --> 00:27:46.730
dancing and shouting, I kind of want to go that

623
00:27:46.789 --> 00:27:48.940
kind of trip. This is the church I want to

624
00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:49.369
go to.

625
00:27:49.529 --> 00:27:49.809
Right.

626
00:27:50.109 --> 00:27:53.410
I would say when I first saw the movie, it

627
00:27:53.450 --> 00:27:56.670
was probably one of my least favorite musical numbers. And

628
00:27:56.730 --> 00:27:58.829
then the more I watched it, it became one of

629
00:27:58.880 --> 00:28:02.619
my favorites. James Brown, he was perfectly cast. You couldn't

630
00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:04.440
have anyone else do that. It just makes it a

631
00:28:04.440 --> 00:28:07.380
lot of fun. The band. The band.

632
00:28:07.660 --> 00:28:08.559
The band.

633
00:28:08.759 --> 00:28:13.970
The band. Okay, and then last favorite scene or moment,

634
00:28:14.470 --> 00:28:17.890
and just because of its ridiculousness, is the Blues Brothers

635
00:28:17.930 --> 00:28:21.190
do make it to the Cook County Assessment Office to

636
00:28:21.230 --> 00:28:25.269
pay off the fine, and basically the whole police force

637
00:28:25.410 --> 00:28:29.710
of Chicago, the state of Illinois, probably the Army Reserve,

638
00:28:29.750 --> 00:28:33.250
military reserves are there trying to get them before they

639
00:28:33.289 --> 00:28:35.450
make this payment, and it's just so over the top,

640
00:28:35.509 --> 00:28:38.680
and How much they're yelling the whole time about everything.

641
00:28:39.079 --> 00:28:41.140


642
00:28:41.160 --> 00:28:43.180
Or they're running down the hall

643
00:28:43.200 --> 00:28:46.440
and they're screaming. And then they would just show Jake

644
00:28:46.839 --> 00:28:49.559
and Elwood and it'd just be silence. There's so much

645
00:28:49.640 --> 00:28:52.069
chaos and noise going around them. And then they're in

646
00:28:52.089 --> 00:28:54.509
the elevator listening to the, was it Girl of Ipanema?

647
00:28:54.529 --> 00:28:55.630
Am I saying that right?

648
00:28:55.670 --> 00:28:56.569
Yeah, Ipanema, yeah.

649
00:28:56.789 --> 00:28:59.529
That's just hilarious. And then who is it that works there?

650
00:29:00.089 --> 00:29:04.029
Steven Spielberg with his sandwich. It's hilarious. It all just

651
00:29:04.069 --> 00:29:06.710
comes to a head at this point. And I would

652
00:29:06.730 --> 00:29:10.349
love to know how many extras they had or troopers

653
00:29:10.609 --> 00:29:12.670
in that movie. There's got to be hundreds. Hundreds.

654
00:29:12.769 --> 00:29:14.069
Oh, easily.

655
00:29:14.329 --> 00:29:16.529
And they go in their office and they're just the

656
00:29:16.630 --> 00:29:18.930
rifles and they're just shooting up the door. And they're

657
00:29:18.970 --> 00:29:20.670
just in the next room. They don't hear any of this.

658
00:29:21.150 --> 00:29:24.450
It's just silence. And they're just waiting for Bielberg to

659
00:29:24.849 --> 00:29:27.430
write the receipt. And they're all good and fine. Just

660
00:29:27.470 --> 00:29:29.660
about to grab the receipt and then the handcuffs come

661
00:29:29.720 --> 00:29:29.900
on him.

662
00:29:29.900 --> 00:29:30.259
Yeah.

663
00:29:30.259 --> 00:29:31.079
So much fun.

664
00:29:31.079 --> 00:29:34.359
No, the hut, hut, hut. Another one of those jokes

665
00:29:34.359 --> 00:29:38.769
between me and my brother. And then just the, like

666
00:29:38.809 --> 00:29:40.390
you said, the over the top, like, do you really

667
00:29:40.410 --> 00:29:42.690
need guys for Pellan on the building? Like, do you

668
00:29:42.710 --> 00:29:44.579
even know where they are? And then just like the

669
00:29:44.799 --> 00:29:49.059
ocean wave of people. And then again, the two security

670
00:29:49.099 --> 00:29:51.019
guys downstairs, like, have you seen you guys? Like, yeah,

671
00:29:51.059 --> 00:29:54.940
just send them that way. Thank you. And there's all polite.

672
00:29:57.660 --> 00:29:59.299
Classic scene. Classic scene. Yes.

673
00:30:00.069 --> 00:30:02.410
And I remember because we learned how to repel from

674
00:30:02.569 --> 00:30:05.130
sports magic. And of course, every time I'm going down,

675
00:30:05.150 --> 00:30:09.960
I'm thinking, this movie definitely bleeds a lot into my,

676
00:30:10.279 --> 00:30:10.680
my life.

677
00:30:10.740 --> 00:30:11.339
It's a real life.

678
00:30:17.500 --> 00:30:19.859
Okay. Time to move on to our Swiss cheese and

679
00:30:19.920 --> 00:30:24.299
complaint department. And so what potholes bloopers or general complaints

680
00:30:24.460 --> 00:30:27.500
would you like to file about the blues brothers? Deb,

681
00:30:27.519 --> 00:30:28.589
what do you got? All right.

682
00:30:28.750 --> 00:30:33.170
So one that forever just annoyed me was I think

683
00:30:33.210 --> 00:30:36.380
the Carrie Fisher piece is you're kind of going along

684
00:30:36.400 --> 00:30:39.440
like they really not piecing it together, which was OK.

685
00:30:39.500 --> 00:30:42.519
But the next day after she's done the stinger missiles

686
00:30:42.779 --> 00:30:45.299
to the front door that she missed, but she's parked

687
00:30:45.359 --> 00:30:47.750
out front again. And she's got like, you know, back

688
00:30:47.789 --> 00:30:49.630
in those days, like the controller she's got in her

689
00:30:49.670 --> 00:30:52.230
hand is what you would have for like a remote

690
00:30:52.250 --> 00:30:54.910
control airplane. And she's pulling it out. She's in it,

691
00:30:54.970 --> 00:30:57.210
but she's like moving the thing around. I'm like, and

692
00:30:57.230 --> 00:30:59.119
then all of a sudden the building blows up. I'm like,

693
00:30:59.180 --> 00:31:03.599
I'm not connecting the dots between how is her controlling

694
00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:07.259
one of the knobs, then blowing up the building. So

695
00:31:07.559 --> 00:31:09.890
that was just one piece that has always just never

696
00:31:10.069 --> 00:31:12.799
set right with me. I'm like, OK, so when did

697
00:31:12.819 --> 00:31:15.099
you plant the explosives? Like, how did when did and

698
00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:17.220
where did you know how to plant them? How did

699
00:31:17.240 --> 00:31:19.390
you know? I guess maybe she knew that was on

700
00:31:19.410 --> 00:31:21.990
the second floor and that the collapse, he'd probably get

701
00:31:22.190 --> 00:31:24.450
crushed with his brother. There was just something there like

702
00:31:24.490 --> 00:31:27.029
there there was a lot that she had to have accomplished.

703
00:31:27.170 --> 00:31:29.210
And then the tool that she's using, I just feel

704
00:31:29.230 --> 00:31:31.569
didn't correlate with with what I know of remote control

705
00:31:31.809 --> 00:31:32.930
incendiary devices today.

706
00:31:33.430 --> 00:31:36.710
I would have to say just the whole Carrie Fisher

707
00:31:36.730 --> 00:31:40.710
character itself, unfortunately. I mean, I love Carrie Fisher, you know,

708
00:31:40.730 --> 00:31:42.490
Star Wars and all that stuff. I probably would have

709
00:31:42.509 --> 00:31:45.210
cut that character out. And then what I found weird, too,

710
00:31:45.269 --> 00:31:47.829
is that the end... When she finally confronts him with

711
00:31:47.869 --> 00:31:51.049
a machine gun and Elwood has no clue who she is.

712
00:31:51.069 --> 00:31:53.019
I'm like, wait, if your brother was going to marry her,

713
00:31:53.430 --> 00:31:56.000
you had to have met her once or known about

714
00:31:56.059 --> 00:31:59.839
the wedding if supposedly Jake had left her at the altar.

715
00:31:59.859 --> 00:32:03.200
So that just seemed a little weird and far-fetched to me.

716
00:32:03.730 --> 00:32:05.569
If she got cut out of the movie, I don't

717
00:32:05.589 --> 00:32:07.470
think it would have made a difference. The only thing

718
00:32:07.490 --> 00:32:08.849
I was trying to figure out, like, how did they

719
00:32:08.869 --> 00:32:14.130
get away from the troopers and John Candy's character? I'm like, okay,

720
00:32:14.150 --> 00:32:16.069
maybe I just had them walk out of the fire

721
00:32:16.089 --> 00:32:18.369
escape or something. They just kind of know that they're coming.

722
00:32:18.390 --> 00:32:20.430
Or the guy at the front desk.

723
00:32:20.609 --> 00:32:21.670
Arr, arr, arr, arr.

724
00:32:21.829 --> 00:32:23.690
Oh, someone's coming up to see you.

725
00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:24.759
Arr, arr, arr, arr.

726
00:32:25.299 --> 00:32:27.599
That's a fair call out to stay on that Carrie

727
00:32:27.619 --> 00:32:32.049
Fisher topic, obviously watching this for another go around. One

728
00:32:32.089 --> 00:32:36.190
thing I had never noticed historically, but when the she's

729
00:32:36.289 --> 00:32:39.630
opened up the flamethrower manual is the first time I

730
00:32:39.750 --> 00:32:42.950
ever noticed that there are literally pictures of her and

731
00:32:43.029 --> 00:32:47.490
Jake together. hugging, dancing, like it's the first time you

732
00:32:47.509 --> 00:32:49.589
actually kind of see that, okay, there is a romantic

733
00:32:49.650 --> 00:32:52.430
connection here, that there was something like really serious if

734
00:32:52.470 --> 00:32:55.009
they took the time to take pictures versus a fling

735
00:32:55.049 --> 00:32:57.970
or something, just a, you know, a scorned lover kind

736
00:32:57.990 --> 00:32:59.730
of deal. But I had never noticed that in all

737
00:32:59.769 --> 00:33:01.829
the number of times that I've seen the movie to

738
00:33:01.869 --> 00:33:04.089
kind of put that connection together. I guess that's another

739
00:33:04.130 --> 00:33:07.509
piece too. Also the flamethrower piece. It's like, how do

740
00:33:07.549 --> 00:33:11.650
you know where they're going to be a propane tank?

741
00:33:12.210 --> 00:33:15.630
To then try to blow them up. It wasn't just a, hey,

742
00:33:16.089 --> 00:33:17.470
I'm just going to get a flamethrower because this is

743
00:33:17.490 --> 00:33:19.359
probably the next good device to use to try to

744
00:33:19.450 --> 00:33:23.019
destroy my X kind of thing. Again, to go a

745
00:33:23.019 --> 00:33:24.759
little deeper in the weeds, that's still a little odd.

746
00:33:25.319 --> 00:33:27.599
Yeah, I can't blow them up. Maybe I'll just fry them.

747
00:33:28.380 --> 00:33:28.819
Anything else?

748
00:33:29.460 --> 00:33:33.289
Another one that not a happy camper about. So it's

749
00:33:33.369 --> 00:33:35.349
obviously towards the end of the film. They're going through

750
00:33:35.390 --> 00:33:38.369
the small towns there, you know, Lake Wazapamati, you know,

751
00:33:38.430 --> 00:33:41.480
bring your friends. It's ladies night. But you see them.

752
00:33:41.859 --> 00:33:44.859
They're in a town, not even like less than like

753
00:33:44.859 --> 00:33:46.880
10 seconds. And then all of a sudden they're out

754
00:33:46.900 --> 00:33:49.339
of gas. I'm like, oh, we could just walk back

755
00:33:49.359 --> 00:33:51.519
to town. I'm like, you're not that. far away. And

756
00:33:51.539 --> 00:33:54.380
there's just this whole like continuity wise, like they weren't

757
00:33:54.460 --> 00:33:57.119
that far away from a town that then they would

758
00:33:57.160 --> 00:33:59.700
have to like push their car on a highway and

759
00:33:59.740 --> 00:34:02.869
be like that late to get to where they need

760
00:34:02.890 --> 00:34:05.170
to get to. It just didn't, they could have thrown

761
00:34:05.230 --> 00:34:07.349
in a couple more clips, put them a little bit farther.

762
00:34:07.390 --> 00:34:09.250
Like they would have gotten on the highway, then lost

763
00:34:09.289 --> 00:34:11.050
their gas. I would have like bought a little bit more,

764
00:34:11.230 --> 00:34:13.050
but literally it's like, you see that you see these

765
00:34:13.090 --> 00:34:15.460
people walking down the street in the neighborhood. And then

766
00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:17.460
all of a sudden they're on a near a farm

767
00:34:17.539 --> 00:34:19.840
and they're out of gas. Like, It just didn't make

768
00:34:19.860 --> 00:34:20.440
any sense to me.

769
00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:22.059
No, I like that one. I didn't think about that.

770
00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:22.980
What about you, buddy?

771
00:34:23.199 --> 00:34:24.960
I know this is one of our favorite scenes with

772
00:34:24.980 --> 00:34:27.219
the good old boys, and I know we're not in

773
00:34:27.239 --> 00:34:31.210
the era of cell phones, but there's pay phones everywhere

774
00:34:31.269 --> 00:34:34.110
back in the early 80s. How do you not pull

775
00:34:34.190 --> 00:34:37.269
over at some point and call Bob's Country Bunker and say, hey,

776
00:34:37.309 --> 00:34:38.210
we're running a little bit late?

777
00:34:38.449 --> 00:34:39.010
Great point.

778
00:34:39.349 --> 00:34:44.059
Well, that's the whole premise of the scene, but that's

779
00:34:44.079 --> 00:34:46.039
what we did back then. We found a pay phone,

780
00:34:46.440 --> 00:34:48.750
made a phone call. You know they got the information.

781
00:34:49.269 --> 00:34:51.639
That's a great call out. And they were obviously really,

782
00:34:51.699 --> 00:34:53.860
really late to think that when they started.

783
00:34:53.880 --> 00:34:58.179
Yeah, because you're wondering how long that show went. Because

784
00:34:58.219 --> 00:35:01.360
they got there. They've got the setup. People are coming in.

785
00:35:01.380 --> 00:35:05.239
So you think they do. When you did shows, how

786
00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:06.519
long did you guys perform for?

787
00:35:06.969 --> 00:35:09.070
That's a good call. So when I was fronting for

788
00:35:09.809 --> 00:35:13.929
my brother-in-law's band, you're easily talking three hours because you're

789
00:35:13.949 --> 00:35:18.909
probably doing 40 minutes on maybe 15 minutes break. And

790
00:35:18.929 --> 00:35:20.420
then you do it. You do at least three sets.

791
00:35:20.860 --> 00:35:21.139
Yeah.

792
00:35:21.400 --> 00:35:23.780
And then, you know, set up, break down, probably three

793
00:35:23.800 --> 00:35:24.960
and a half, four all in.

794
00:35:25.340 --> 00:35:30.059
So you're like 11, 1130 midnight at that point, right? Well, yeah.

795
00:35:30.099 --> 00:35:33.050
We don't really even know when their show actually started.

796
00:35:33.070 --> 00:35:35.230
I mean, it was obviously empty. You know, then the

797
00:35:35.250 --> 00:35:38.760
truckers start pulling in. Maybe you're talking 9, 30, 10 o'clock,

798
00:35:38.780 --> 00:35:40.159
so it's got to be 2 o'clock in the morning

799
00:35:40.199 --> 00:35:43.519
before the actual band shows up.

800
00:35:43.619 --> 00:35:46.739
Yeah, they show up like they're going to perform. I'm like, hello,

801
00:35:46.760 --> 00:35:48.500
there's nobody in the parking lot when you're pulling up.

802
00:35:48.900 --> 00:35:50.099
None of you have a watch?

803
00:35:50.639 --> 00:35:53.389
Again, great call out. Someone's got to have a dime.

804
00:35:53.610 --> 00:35:55.610
Someone's got a dime. There was still a dime back then,

805
00:35:55.690 --> 00:35:57.449
so make a phone call.

806
00:35:58.050 --> 00:35:58.510
Yeah, man.

807
00:35:58.969 --> 00:35:59.369
Anything else?

808
00:35:59.789 --> 00:36:03.449
No, man, those are the two that definitely were the

809
00:36:03.489 --> 00:36:05.210
annoying highlights of the film.

810
00:36:05.369 --> 00:36:07.809
The last one for me, and again, back to the

811
00:36:07.829 --> 00:36:10.769
good old boys. Oh, one more. So when they give

812
00:36:10.849 --> 00:36:14.679
chase after they leave Bob's country bunker, and then the

813
00:36:14.739 --> 00:36:17.019
trooper's on the side of the road, and the trooper

814
00:36:17.039 --> 00:36:20.519
car drives into the Winnebago, there's no more good old boys.

815
00:36:20.880 --> 00:36:23.139
Because they have those four, the four band guys were

816
00:36:23.179 --> 00:36:26.840
sitting on the top. They were dead. That thing got...

817
00:36:26.989 --> 00:36:30.590
demolished we should have saw body parts going all over

818
00:36:30.630 --> 00:36:32.429
the place i mean i don't know how the good

819
00:36:32.469 --> 00:36:34.269
old boys did not all die by the end of

820
00:36:34.289 --> 00:36:36.989
the movie because even the final chase they end up

821
00:36:37.030 --> 00:36:39.699
in the water they got the worst of anybody i

822
00:36:39.739 --> 00:36:40.579
think you.

823
00:36:40.519 --> 00:36:42.440
Know that's a great call out because you think about

824
00:36:42.500 --> 00:36:45.440
they're all bright shied and bushy tails they got their

825
00:36:45.539 --> 00:36:48.099
their axe handles in their hand at the at the

826
00:36:48.139 --> 00:36:51.449
final you know the final scene like nothing happened you

827
00:36:51.469 --> 00:36:54.110
know there wasn't like a tape on the nose or

828
00:36:54.309 --> 00:36:56.650
arm in a sling. It's a good call out. That

829
00:36:56.710 --> 00:36:59.809
whole shot where they're being chased and you got the

830
00:36:59.829 --> 00:37:02.429
four guys up top with the lights, it's just a classic.

831
00:37:02.909 --> 00:37:05.170
If you had a vehicle like that and you were

832
00:37:05.190 --> 00:37:07.590
a kid, that's where you went. So it was one

833
00:37:07.610 --> 00:37:10.849
of those. At that time, RV never had one, but like, oh,

834
00:37:10.869 --> 00:37:12.179
that'd be so cool to be up front. I can

835
00:37:12.199 --> 00:37:14.179
just be over my parents while we're driving and see

836
00:37:14.219 --> 00:37:16.019
down the road like I'm in some kind of spaceship.

837
00:37:16.079 --> 00:37:17.340
It's just the fact that they got three or four

838
00:37:17.380 --> 00:37:18.920
guys packed up in there was funny.

839
00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:21.099
Oh, yeah. You know what? They did miss a moment.

840
00:37:21.139 --> 00:37:23.389
They should have showed up. at that final scene all

841
00:37:23.869 --> 00:37:26.590
bandaged up and just pissed off. That would have worked.

842
00:37:27.269 --> 00:37:27.550
Oh, well.

843
00:37:27.769 --> 00:37:29.269
All right, so let's move on to our next segment,

844
00:37:29.309 --> 00:37:33.170
which is Hey, It's That Actor. So this segment, we

845
00:37:33.190 --> 00:37:35.590
spotlight a character actor you've seen in many other films,

846
00:37:35.690 --> 00:37:38.670
an actor making their big screen debut, or an actor

847
00:37:38.690 --> 00:37:42.280
that makes an uncredited cameo. It's Hey, It's That Actor. Dub,

848
00:37:42.340 --> 00:37:44.039
who is your choice for Hey, It's That Actor?

849
00:37:44.519 --> 00:37:47.380
All right, so I have to go with Paul Reubens.

850
00:37:47.860 --> 00:37:51.179
So he plays the role of the waiter, at the

851
00:37:51.219 --> 00:37:57.179
fine dining establishment, small cameo, just clearing plates and filling

852
00:37:57.219 --> 00:37:59.860
up glasses with water kind of thing. To not know

853
00:37:59.940 --> 00:38:01.860
who he was, then all of a sudden to turn

854
00:38:01.900 --> 00:38:07.079
into someone who's done 129 acting credits, 12 writing, three directing,

855
00:38:07.099 --> 00:38:10.449
then he turns into Pee Wee. The HBO special was

856
00:38:10.489 --> 00:38:13.530
a thing about that time. This was, you know, HBO

857
00:38:13.570 --> 00:38:15.210
is where I saw this. Then next thing I see

858
00:38:15.250 --> 00:38:17.989
Pee Wee, you know, Phil Hartman.

859
00:38:18.429 --> 00:38:20.050
Yeah, Hartman. Phil Hartman, yeah.

860
00:38:20.849 --> 00:38:23.630
He gets his, you know, Captain Carl. And then, you know,

861
00:38:23.670 --> 00:38:25.550
and then it just, you know, snowballs from there to

862
00:38:25.570 --> 00:38:29.150
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. Then his, obviously, his children's show. I mean,

863
00:38:29.690 --> 00:38:32.610
I remember watching that as a kid. And we used

864
00:38:32.650 --> 00:38:34.429
to goof all the time when we were doing our

865
00:38:34.449 --> 00:38:36.699
sports magic team. If it was either Bill Nye the

866
00:38:36.739 --> 00:38:39.820
Science Guy, word of the day, or it was Pee-Wee's Playhouse,

867
00:38:39.880 --> 00:38:41.760
word of the day, that we would do some goofball

868
00:38:41.780 --> 00:38:44.639
stuff with. So it's just incredible that this guy went

869
00:38:44.739 --> 00:38:47.800
on to do, you know, a whole bunch of different films, animated,

870
00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:50.630
claymation movies. Just funny to see that this guy kind

871
00:38:50.730 --> 00:38:53.070
of got the first film that I ever saw him

872
00:38:53.090 --> 00:38:55.449
in just being such a small part. Then turn and

873
00:38:55.489 --> 00:38:57.050
you just never know where it goes. Yeah.

874
00:38:57.190 --> 00:38:59.530
Being one of the most iconic characters of the 80s

875
00:38:59.610 --> 00:39:02.260
as Pee Wee Herman. Just amazing. And I think he

876
00:39:02.280 --> 00:39:06.679
has maybe one line when he suggests the was the champagne.

877
00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:11.059
Yeah. He's like wrong glass, sir. Yeah. The funny things

878
00:39:11.119 --> 00:39:13.300
I learned at that time didn't know the difference between

879
00:39:13.340 --> 00:39:15.500
a water glass and the champagne glass at the time.

880
00:39:15.539 --> 00:39:17.940
So educational moment that we got from this film.

881
00:39:18.380 --> 00:39:22.190
I probably still don't. Yeah, so my pick for Hey,

882
00:39:22.250 --> 00:39:24.329
It's That Actor, as soon as I saw him in

883
00:39:24.369 --> 00:39:25.829
this movie, I mean, I didn't know who he was

884
00:39:25.869 --> 00:39:27.190
right away, but I'm like, I have to look him up.

885
00:39:27.230 --> 00:39:29.969
He looks so familiar. And it was our little guitarist.

886
00:39:30.340 --> 00:39:35.539
thief at Ray's Music Exchange. So that actor's name is

887
00:39:35.639 --> 00:39:38.659
Devereaux White. And you're like, all right, that name doesn't

888
00:39:38.719 --> 00:39:41.570
sound familiar. But the movie he's most known for, you

889
00:39:41.590 --> 00:39:47.429
will certainly know, 1988's Die Hard. That's Argyle, the limo driver.

890
00:39:47.449 --> 00:39:49.710
And it would totally make sense. Yes.

891
00:39:50.960 --> 00:39:52.179
Oh, that is awesome.

892
00:39:52.500 --> 00:39:54.619
Yeah, the face looked familiar. And I was like, wait

893
00:39:54.639 --> 00:39:57.260
a second. I know this kid grows up to be something.

894
00:39:57.400 --> 00:39:59.070
And when I looked him up, I'm like, yep, looks

895
00:39:59.119 --> 00:40:00.489
exactly like him.

896
00:40:00.530 --> 00:40:02.630
My hair's standing on end just by you saying that.

897
00:40:03.630 --> 00:40:04.730
That is so cool.

898
00:40:04.929 --> 00:40:05.190
Yeah.

899
00:40:05.489 --> 00:40:08.030
That's deep cut, man. That's deep cut. That's why we

900
00:40:08.050 --> 00:40:09.980
love this show. You come in with the heavy stuff.

901
00:40:10.650 --> 00:40:12.880
New kids on the block like me doing the high-level

902
00:40:13.079 --> 00:40:15.400
Pee Wee Herman reference, but that's awesome, Bill.

903
00:40:15.900 --> 00:40:17.239
But yeah, Paul Rubens, though, man.

904
00:40:17.280 --> 00:40:20.949
Come on. Paul Rubens, you're going to sneeze at that.

905
00:40:21.260 --> 00:40:23.909
But still, though, Argyle. Nice.

906
00:40:24.510 --> 00:40:26.650
All right. Well, let's throw some more facts at them.

907
00:40:26.690 --> 00:40:29.210
So we're in our facts and trivia segment. So what

908
00:40:29.250 --> 00:40:31.500
are some fun facts or trivia we can share about

909
00:40:31.519 --> 00:40:32.889
the Blues Brothers? All right.

910
00:40:32.909 --> 00:40:36.340
Well, again, you mentioned the shopping mall. So I did

911
00:40:36.380 --> 00:40:38.940
a little deep dive on the interweb, as they say.

912
00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:41.519
So I guess the shopping mall scene, the scene was

913
00:40:41.619 --> 00:40:45.619
filmed at the Dixie Square Mall. In Harvey, Illinois, which

914
00:40:45.659 --> 00:40:50.329
was shut down in 1979, the mall was never reopened.

915
00:40:50.530 --> 00:40:54.869
It was finally torn down in 2013. So that's a

916
00:40:54.909 --> 00:40:58.250
little history on the mall. Would have never thought at

917
00:40:58.269 --> 00:41:01.550
the time that it was an abandoned mall or a

918
00:41:01.570 --> 00:41:05.269
shut down mall when they did the scene. But yes,

919
00:41:05.289 --> 00:41:07.829
you're okay to wreck the place because they're not going

920
00:41:07.849 --> 00:41:08.369
to do anything with it.

921
00:41:10.239 --> 00:41:10.420
All right.

922
00:41:10.440 --> 00:41:12.239
So this is actually something you touched on earlier. So

923
00:41:12.260 --> 00:41:13.860
this is kind of cool. I got this one. So

924
00:41:13.989 --> 00:41:17.130
when performing the theme to Rawhide, Elwood claims it is

925
00:41:17.250 --> 00:41:21.110
a old Rowdy Yates tune. So Rowdy Yates was merely

926
00:41:21.289 --> 00:41:24.789
Clint Eastwood's character on the show. The theme was in

927
00:41:24.849 --> 00:41:30.579
fact written in 1958 by Dimitri Timkin and Ned Washington

928
00:41:30.679 --> 00:41:33.260
and was originally performed by Frankie Lane.

929
00:41:33.639 --> 00:41:33.920
Wow.

930
00:41:34.380 --> 00:41:36.460
So he should have said the old Frankie Lane song.

931
00:41:36.880 --> 00:41:39.500
I think they were probably knowing their audience at that

932
00:41:39.559 --> 00:41:43.309
location that I think that's why he probably went that route,

933
00:41:43.409 --> 00:41:45.829
if I'm going to cover for Elwood in this space,

934
00:41:46.070 --> 00:41:49.840
that Demetri probably wouldn't have flied with that audience. No,

935
00:41:49.889 --> 00:41:54.900
I don't think so. Yeah. Oh, good Rawhide cut there.

936
00:41:54.920 --> 00:41:57.000
All right, let's see if I got another one here.

937
00:41:57.360 --> 00:41:59.380
We talked about the music part of this and me

938
00:41:59.400 --> 00:42:02.659
being appreciative of that. So I was curious, how many

939
00:42:02.780 --> 00:42:07.210
albums have they actually sold? So according to Amazon's resources,

940
00:42:07.849 --> 00:42:11.289
the official 1980 movie soundtrack of the Blues Brothers has

941
00:42:11.329 --> 00:42:15.090
sold over a million copies. It was certified platinum by

942
00:42:15.130 --> 00:42:20.590
the RIAA in February of 1998. So kind of cool

943
00:42:21.050 --> 00:42:24.380
that an album that came out in the 80s that had,

944
00:42:24.889 --> 00:42:26.579
you know, if you think about it, you're coming out

945
00:42:26.619 --> 00:42:28.980
of that kind of the blues and jazz was still

946
00:42:29.039 --> 00:42:31.960
kind of there. But rolling into the 80s, you got horns,

947
00:42:32.199 --> 00:42:34.719
you know, which is another part of this Peter Gunn

948
00:42:34.739 --> 00:42:38.500
theme on the track, which was another as a kid.

949
00:42:38.699 --> 00:42:42.969
That song resonated with me for the longest time, not

950
00:42:43.030 --> 00:42:45.150
knowing who Peter Gunn was. And it was related to

951
00:42:45.170 --> 00:42:49.179
a gumshoe show. Just thinking about, you know, over this time,

952
00:42:49.219 --> 00:42:52.969
over a million copies of a band that started on

953
00:42:53.050 --> 00:42:56.050
Saturday Night Live. I think it's just a really cool story.

954
00:42:56.550 --> 00:43:00.210
Yeah, I got my copy of the soundtrack. That's for sure. Alright,

955
00:43:00.309 --> 00:43:03.869
so we'll probably never get to see director John Landis'

956
00:43:03.929 --> 00:43:08.010
complete original vision of the movie. His first cut of

957
00:43:08.030 --> 00:43:12.420
the Blues Brothers reportedly ran an incredible 160 minutes and

958
00:43:12.440 --> 00:43:15.980
was screened only once. Although Landis hoped to restore that

959
00:43:16.039 --> 00:43:19.449
version for a special release, he later discovered that Universal

960
00:43:19.510 --> 00:43:22.889
had discarded much of that deleted footage. So as a result,

961
00:43:23.030 --> 00:43:26.550
even the collector's edition is missing a significant amount of material.

962
00:43:26.769 --> 00:43:29.510
And the original 160 minute cut is believed to be

963
00:43:29.550 --> 00:43:32.489
lost forever. Because I had the collector's edition. I think

964
00:43:32.530 --> 00:43:36.510
that's two hours and 20 minutes. So there's still 40

965
00:43:36.510 --> 00:43:40.190
minutes that are God knows where in some dumpster somewhere.

966
00:43:40.710 --> 00:43:42.269
All right. So just to be clear. So when we

967
00:43:42.289 --> 00:43:45.710
were living together, we each had our rack of VHSs.

968
00:43:46.110 --> 00:43:48.969
So yours, I had like the regular Joe Schmo version

969
00:43:49.050 --> 00:43:51.949
and you had the extended version is what you're saying. Yes.

970
00:43:52.809 --> 00:43:53.710
Okay. All right.

971
00:43:53.730 --> 00:43:55.969
Just wanted to make sure. You never shared that with me,

972
00:43:55.989 --> 00:43:58.150
so I'm a little hurt in the moment, but I'll

973
00:43:58.170 --> 00:44:03.469
get past it. Sorry. It's all right. Okay. I got

974
00:44:03.489 --> 00:44:06.920
another one here. Obviously a classic. You mentioned it. The

975
00:44:06.960 --> 00:44:09.659
car chases. You know, I'm sure it's been a standard

976
00:44:09.699 --> 00:44:11.860
trivia question out there, but for those who don't know,

977
00:44:12.300 --> 00:44:15.599
let's drop the knowledge. So the 1980s film, The Blues Bros,

978
00:44:15.659 --> 00:44:20.989
officially destroyed 100 to 104 cars during the production. a

979
00:44:21.030 --> 00:44:24.630
world record at the time of its release. This included

980
00:44:24.630 --> 00:44:29.050
60 retired Chicago police cruisers, which the production team purchased

981
00:44:29.269 --> 00:44:30.670
at an auction for.

982
00:44:30.329 --> 00:44:30.449
$ 400 each.

983
00:44:30.869 --> 00:44:31.150
Wow.

984
00:44:31.170 --> 00:44:31.269
Yeah.

985
00:44:31.289 --> 00:44:37.429
I'd love to get a car for $ 400. Seriously.

986
00:44:37.670 --> 00:44:39.829
Even if it only lasted me a month, it'd still

987
00:44:39.849 --> 00:44:42.130
be cheaper than a payment for a regular car now.

988
00:44:42.289 --> 00:44:44.139
Just think the guy who's doing the production on this, like,

989
00:44:44.159 --> 00:44:45.800
how can I find, you know, how many cars can

990
00:44:45.840 --> 00:44:48.340
I find? Like, $ 400? Like, all right, let's go.

991
00:44:48.360 --> 00:44:48.840
Yeah.

992
00:44:49.719 --> 00:44:54.119
Last one for me is, during production, Universal executives repeatedly

993
00:44:54.199 --> 00:44:58.050
pressured director John Landis to replace legendary performers like Cab

994
00:44:58.070 --> 00:45:01.730
Calloway and Aretha Franklin with more contemporary hitmakers such as

995
00:45:01.889 --> 00:45:06.769
Rose Royce, believing they would have greater commercial appeal. Landis refused,

996
00:45:06.869 --> 00:45:10.409
insisting that the film honor the rich legacy of blues, jazz,

997
00:45:10.449 --> 00:45:12.510
and R & B, the very heart of the Blues Brothers.

998
00:45:12.829 --> 00:45:15.869
He believed swapping out those icons would undermine the movie's

999
00:45:15.909 --> 00:45:18.789
message and its celebration of the arts, who helped shape

1000
00:45:18.849 --> 00:45:22.750
American music. His decision came with consequences, though. Frustrated by

1001
00:45:22.769 --> 00:45:26.070
the film's rising budget and its creative direction, some major

1002
00:45:26.190 --> 00:45:30.489
theater chains reportedly refused to book the movie in certain neighborhoods.

1003
00:45:30.710 --> 00:45:33.889
Despite the pressure, Landis stood by his vision, and those

1004
00:45:34.010 --> 00:45:37.909
legendary musical performances remain one of the film's greatest strengths.

1005
00:45:38.590 --> 00:45:41.659
Once again, studio executives trying to muck stuff up, and

1006
00:45:41.679 --> 00:45:43.280
I'm glad Landis stood his ground.

1007
00:45:43.639 --> 00:45:45.780
Wow, that's a nice nugget, man. Good take.

1008
00:45:46.329 --> 00:45:48.250
All right, so let's move on to box office. So

1009
00:45:48.269 --> 00:45:52.309
the Blues Brothers was released on June 20th, 1980 on

1010
00:45:52.309 --> 00:45:57.269
594 screens with a production budget of approximately $ 27 million.

1011
00:45:57.429 --> 00:45:59.769
It was one of the most expensive comedies ever produced

1012
00:45:59.809 --> 00:46:01.949
at the time. The movie opened number two at the

1013
00:46:01.969 --> 00:46:06.079
box office, earning about $ 4. 9 million during its opening weekend.

1014
00:46:06.119 --> 00:46:08.400
And by the end of its theatrical run, it brought

1015
00:46:08.460 --> 00:46:14.119
in $ 57. 2 million domestically and $ 115. 2 million worldwide. The Blues

1016
00:46:14.139 --> 00:46:17.179
Brothers would be the 10th highest grossing movie in the U.S.

1017
00:46:17.239 --> 00:46:19.750
in 1980. And that takes us to reviews. When growing

1018
00:46:19.789 --> 00:46:21.800
up in the 80s, we would watch sneak previews with

1019
00:46:21.820 --> 00:46:24.159
Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert to hear their reviews and

1020
00:46:24.199 --> 00:46:27.460
watch clips of upcoming movies. Unfortunately, they did not cover

1021
00:46:27.500 --> 00:46:29.920
the Blues Brothers on the show, but on the episode

1022
00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:33.519
titled The Best Movies of 1980, Gene had it number

1023
00:46:33.519 --> 00:46:35.880
8 on his list. Gene said he found the Blues

1024
00:46:35.900 --> 00:46:39.619
Brothers to be a wonderful mix of action, music, and comedy.

1025
00:46:39.860 --> 00:46:41.909
He had a good time from beginning to end. Roger

1026
00:46:41.969 --> 00:46:44.449
agreed that he enjoyed the movie, but didn't have the

1027
00:46:44.489 --> 00:46:46.789
movie in his top 10 because he found it to

1028
00:46:46.849 --> 00:46:50.630
be a little too overblown. Rotten Tomatoes gives it a

1029
00:46:50.710 --> 00:46:53.969
tomato meter score of 72% with a popcorn meter score

1030
00:46:54.070 --> 00:46:59.170
of 92% and it also has an IMDb rating of 7.9.

1031
00:46:59.170 --> 00:47:02.530
So this takes us to additional thoughts and questions. Before

1032
00:47:02.570 --> 00:47:05.070
we wrap up things with this episode, are there any

1033
00:47:05.110 --> 00:47:07.829
additional thoughts and questions you want to share with our audience?

1034
00:47:08.300 --> 00:47:12.320
Additional thoughts and questions. I have to go back to the,

1035
00:47:12.340 --> 00:47:17.329
I think the pacing, there's literally no lull. in this movie.

1036
00:47:17.349 --> 00:47:19.570
You think of the number of films that we've probably

1037
00:47:19.610 --> 00:47:21.809
watched since then, you're like, oh, wow, they could have, like,

1038
00:47:21.849 --> 00:47:23.530
why did we have that section? Like, all of a sudden,

1039
00:47:23.550 --> 00:47:26.179
it just kind of slows down. It just beat, beat, beat, beat,

1040
00:47:26.260 --> 00:47:28.699
beat till the final. I mean, I don't know what

1041
00:47:28.760 --> 00:47:33.000
else to say. It's just a solid film. It is something, again,

1042
00:47:33.139 --> 00:47:35.969
to have the opportunity to talk about it, to relive it,

1043
00:47:36.039 --> 00:47:37.980
to think about it, the memories that it gives me

1044
00:47:38.440 --> 00:47:41.219
after all these years, to connect with my brother, to

1045
00:47:41.239 --> 00:47:45.429
connect with with siblings to kick with friends like you. Listen, we, we,

1046
00:47:45.489 --> 00:47:48.500
we were so into this, to this, to this particular production.

1047
00:47:48.800 --> 00:47:51.539
We first started working together with a sports magic team,

1048
00:47:51.619 --> 00:47:54.300
our buddy, Mitch. Do you remember? He actually printed out

1049
00:47:54.340 --> 00:47:57.119
a copy of the script. Do you remember this? I

1050
00:47:57.179 --> 00:47:58.980
had it with me. I had it with like, yeah,

1051
00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:01.289
it was like a, okay. So our, our friend worked

1052
00:48:01.329 --> 00:48:03.630
for a local medical organization. I had a lot of

1053
00:48:03.670 --> 00:48:05.670
time on his hands. It was search the web and

1054
00:48:05.690 --> 00:48:07.570
we'll just find stuff. And he printed this out. Yeah.

1055
00:48:07.590 --> 00:48:09.449
I was just thinking about you guys. And then he

1056
00:48:09.489 --> 00:48:10.909
just handed this to me one day when we were

1057
00:48:11.110 --> 00:48:13.949
at a Panthers event or something like that. And I

1058
00:48:14.010 --> 00:48:15.570
hung on to it for the longest time, but it

1059
00:48:15.869 --> 00:48:18.570
was the full script, line for line, like the whole

1060
00:48:18.590 --> 00:48:22.519
thing spelled out. So, yeah. So, again, these are just

1061
00:48:22.940 --> 00:48:25.400
the nuggets that, again, being a part of the films

1062
00:48:25.440 --> 00:48:27.119
in the 80s, you get tied to and you grow

1063
00:48:27.179 --> 00:48:29.360
up with and it's a part of you. There's my

1064
00:48:29.780 --> 00:48:31.760
kind of last little nugget thoughts for you.

1065
00:48:31.800 --> 00:48:35.019
So yeah, here's the little nugget about me. So my son,

1066
00:48:35.380 --> 00:48:38.239
when he was born to about eight or nine, his

1067
00:48:38.300 --> 00:48:41.280
nickname was Mr. Man from the Blues Brothers because the

1068
00:48:41.340 --> 00:48:43.170
C when they're tracking, that's what we would call him.

1069
00:48:43.179 --> 00:48:45.639
We would call him Mr. Man until he finally said,

1070
00:48:45.719 --> 00:48:47.510
can you stop calling me Mr. Man, please? And call

1071
00:48:47.530 --> 00:48:50.869
me by my name. Yeah. And that was from the

1072
00:48:50.889 --> 00:48:54.369
Blues Brothers. And like your friend, I usually carry a

1073
00:48:54.389 --> 00:48:56.130
harmonica with me all the time. I have a backpack

1074
00:48:56.309 --> 00:48:59.909
with me and I have... a harmonica that i bought

1075
00:48:59.989 --> 00:49:02.530
from house of blues that's usually in my backpack i

1076
00:49:02.730 --> 00:49:04.639
learned to play like two or three songs on it

1077
00:49:04.900 --> 00:49:07.460
i'm not very good at it but i do have

1078
00:49:07.519 --> 00:49:09.820
it because of because of this movie.

1079
00:49:09.840 --> 00:49:12.539
That's awesome and you just kind of pull some of

1080
00:49:12.559 --> 00:49:13.929
the whole house of blues i mean just think about

1081
00:49:13.969 --> 00:49:19.010
how strong that franchise actually lasted yeah like you said

1082
00:49:19.030 --> 00:49:21.440
80s and we were still rocking what we were doing

1083
00:49:21.480 --> 00:49:26.199
into the 90s. I never saw the remake or the

1084
00:49:26.260 --> 00:49:29.739
re-extension in 1998. I never could bring myself to watch

1085
00:49:29.780 --> 00:49:32.139
that film. Again, I would say I'm a Blues Brothers

1086
00:49:32.159 --> 00:49:35.239
purist at this point. It's a standalone, in my opinion.

1087
00:49:35.619 --> 00:49:37.940
Yeah. I've seen it once.

1088
00:49:38.099 --> 00:49:41.889
It just... Yeah, they couldn't recapture. They took famous people

1089
00:49:41.949 --> 00:49:44.920
and tried to force a play. This is my only

1090
00:49:44.960 --> 00:49:45.559
take on that.

1091
00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:48.699
I would say, if you haven't watched it, just stay firm.

1092
00:49:48.920 --> 00:49:50.619
Stay firm.

1093
00:49:50.659 --> 00:49:51.329
Stage and round.

1094
00:49:51.510 --> 00:49:51.750
Yep.

1095
00:49:52.650 --> 00:49:55.360
No reason to go in that direction. All right. So

1096
00:49:55.679 --> 00:49:59.760
let's move on to our movie rating. So W's a

1097
00:49:59.920 --> 00:50:03.010
five star rating system with zero stars being the worst

1098
00:50:03.119 --> 00:50:06.289
and five stars being the best and half star increments

1099
00:50:06.510 --> 00:50:09.909
are allowed. OK, since I mean, you didn't technically pick

1100
00:50:09.929 --> 00:50:11.670
the movie, but I kind of made you pick the

1101
00:50:11.690 --> 00:50:12.949
movie because I knew, you know.

1102
00:50:13.030 --> 00:50:14.789
So it was obviously my top 10 that we were

1103
00:50:14.889 --> 00:50:16.349
that you had available at the time.

1104
00:50:16.449 --> 00:50:19.110
So so it's safe to assume you're going to give

1105
00:50:19.170 --> 00:50:21.530
it good marks. But let's see if I'll agree. So

1106
00:50:22.250 --> 00:50:24.030
what's your rating for the Blues Brothers?

1107
00:50:24.820 --> 00:50:28.139
So, the audience can tell here, definitely, there's just so

1108
00:50:28.159 --> 00:50:31.250
much going on here. But I've got to do, I'll

1109
00:50:31.269 --> 00:50:34.489
go a 4.5. I'll do a 4.5. There's not a

1110
00:50:34.570 --> 00:50:36.500
scene in this movie where I don't know a line

1111
00:50:36.639 --> 00:50:38.860
that brings me some kind of joy. The music, piece

1112
00:50:38.880 --> 00:50:42.550
of the equation, the choreography. The album itself that spun

1113
00:50:42.610 --> 00:50:45.320
from this, that my brother had the LP that we

1114
00:50:45.340 --> 00:50:47.579
would play at the house. I guess I'm taking a

1115
00:50:47.619 --> 00:50:49.780
half point off because, I mean, you really got to

1116
00:50:50.519 --> 00:50:52.500
be crushing it. The Carrie Fisher piece, I think, like

1117
00:50:52.539 --> 00:50:55.440
you said, is kind of like if you cut that out,

1118
00:50:55.480 --> 00:50:59.820
you'd probably still be okay. So I'm going to 4.5.

1119
00:50:59.820 --> 00:51:00.739
How'd I do, boss?

1120
00:51:01.030 --> 00:51:02.690
We matched. We matched. I have 4.5 also.

1121
00:51:02.730 --> 00:51:02.989
All right.

1122
00:51:06.289 --> 00:51:08.730
I was like, why am I not giving this a five?

1123
00:51:08.829 --> 00:51:11.369
I should really give it a five. But yeah, I

1124
00:51:11.429 --> 00:51:15.659
think the Carrie Fisher thing, it's just not needed in it.

1125
00:51:16.079 --> 00:51:19.340
It really is the story of the two brothers trying

1126
00:51:19.360 --> 00:51:22.699
to help the orphanage. Even the whole Illinois Nazi thing,

1127
00:51:22.840 --> 00:51:25.780
I'm kind of like, ah. But I mean, we look

1128
00:51:25.860 --> 00:51:28.199
at groups today that are just as bad, it just

1129
00:51:28.239 --> 00:51:31.610
seems like. So I'm a little more forgiving of that.

1130
00:51:31.630 --> 00:51:33.969
I mean, it's got the comedy, it's got the action,

1131
00:51:34.030 --> 00:51:38.170
it's got the music. Belushi and Ackroyd are both everybody's

1132
00:51:38.210 --> 00:51:41.159
performances that, I mean, there's so many people we didn't

1133
00:51:41.179 --> 00:51:43.900
even mention that are in this, that even Henry Gibson

1134
00:51:43.960 --> 00:51:45.800
is the, is the head Nazi.

1135
00:51:46.280 --> 00:51:47.599
We didn't even mention John Candy.

1136
00:51:48.190 --> 00:51:50.050
No, he didn't mention John Candy.

1137
00:51:50.250 --> 00:51:52.809
How do we go through the show without mentioning John Candy,

1138
00:51:52.829 --> 00:51:53.130
you know?

1139
00:51:54.349 --> 00:51:55.889
Who for the longest time, I don't know how many

1140
00:51:55.909 --> 00:51:57.510
times I watched this movie until I figured out who

1141
00:51:57.530 --> 00:51:59.380
he was. Why is this guy in this movie? What

1142
00:51:59.409 --> 00:52:02.320
is he supposed to be doing? He's the parole officer, correct?

1143
00:52:02.519 --> 00:52:04.980
I want to say he's more like a, oh, maybe

1144
00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:08.059
he is the parole officer. Because for some reason, I

1145
00:52:08.079 --> 00:52:12.059
just thought he was a detective helping these guys run

1146
00:52:12.099 --> 00:52:15.039
him down. And maybe he was. Wow. I've never really

1147
00:52:15.079 --> 00:52:18.579
thought about his job title to this point.

1148
00:52:18.739 --> 00:52:21.280
Well, it's weird because they see the card and then

1149
00:52:21.320 --> 00:52:23.800
his name is in such small print in the corner

1150
00:52:24.099 --> 00:52:29.250
who his character's name is. You're like, oh, okay. Burton Mercer. Yeah,

1151
00:52:29.289 --> 00:52:30.989
he's Jake's parole officer. Okay.

1152
00:52:31.010 --> 00:52:31.230
Okay.

1153
00:52:31.679 --> 00:52:33.659
I mean, what's he got, 10 minutes of screen time?

1154
00:52:34.159 --> 00:52:37.179
If that. Yeah. But he's thinking about each point he's

1155
00:52:37.219 --> 00:52:39.940
got like, I thought the Wrigley Field thing was funny.

1156
00:52:40.260 --> 00:52:42.519
He's like, yeah, real funny. And then he's got the

1157
00:52:42.559 --> 00:52:44.679
orange whip. And then he's like, hey, you mind handing

1158
00:52:44.719 --> 00:52:49.000
me the mic? Like, yeah. What number are we? Five, five. Hey,

1159
00:52:49.019 --> 00:52:52.789
we're car 55. We're in a truck. You know, that's.

1160
00:52:53.550 --> 00:52:55.110
Or even when they're going to arrest him, they're like,

1161
00:52:55.469 --> 00:52:57.969
I haven't seen these guys perform first. Let's arrest them then.

1162
00:52:57.969 --> 00:53:04.150
$ 2 for tickets for that show. That's fine. I put

1163
00:53:04.190 --> 00:53:07.539
that together too. Like two bucks for a show. Holy cow.

1164
00:53:07.579 --> 00:53:09.260
I didn't have all those people show up that quick.

1165
00:53:09.500 --> 00:53:11.079
I guess you got two bucks. You got nothing going

1166
00:53:11.099 --> 00:53:12.179
on on a Friday or Saturday night.

1167
00:53:12.219 --> 00:53:14.389
Like, yeah, let's go. I mean, we only got three

1168
00:53:14.429 --> 00:53:16.510
songs out of it, but yeah, I think I would have,

1169
00:53:16.650 --> 00:53:18.570
I would have loved that they had done another song.

1170
00:53:19.159 --> 00:53:21.429
but then it inflates the movie.

1171
00:53:21.800 --> 00:53:24.670
So funny. I was thinking the same thing before we stopped,

1172
00:53:25.070 --> 00:53:27.409
you know, thinking about this show and thoughts around that.

1173
00:53:27.750 --> 00:53:29.230
And you and I are on the same page. One

1174
00:53:29.250 --> 00:53:30.690
more song that would have been great, but then like

1175
00:53:30.710 --> 00:53:34.070
you said, it was already long. You know, it would

1176
00:53:34.090 --> 00:53:35.820
be too much. Yeah.

1177
00:53:35.860 --> 00:53:36.039
So.

1178
00:53:36.829 --> 00:53:38.730
Hey, I just want to come just a little nugget.

1179
00:53:38.750 --> 00:53:42.699
You mentioned the whole, the whole Nazi thing. I believe

1180
00:53:42.719 --> 00:53:46.960
they may have included that because there was historical events

1181
00:53:47.019 --> 00:53:49.219
going on at that time where there was an actual

1182
00:53:49.260 --> 00:53:53.260
case in Illinois, Nazis versus somebody, and they actually had

1183
00:53:53.280 --> 00:53:56.739
won the case. It wasn't necessarily like just something they

1184
00:53:56.760 --> 00:54:00.360
made up the Nazis. There was actually my understanding. So

1185
00:54:00.400 --> 00:54:02.519
I thought that was, I think I learned that like

1186
00:54:02.880 --> 00:54:05.800
maybe like two, three years ago or something like, Oh, okay. Well,

1187
00:54:05.820 --> 00:54:08.360
this connecting the dots of what was going on in

1188
00:54:08.900 --> 00:54:10.099
that time. Yeah.

1189
00:54:10.519 --> 00:54:12.739
Yeah. So four and a half for me, your kids

1190
00:54:12.760 --> 00:54:14.480
seen the movie. I'm sure you've shown it to your kids.

1191
00:54:15.619 --> 00:54:19.530
Oh no. Wow. Okay. I haven't shown it to mine

1192
00:54:19.570 --> 00:54:22.389
yet either. I mean, there is some, some language in

1193
00:54:22.449 --> 00:54:25.550
it and there's still, I mean, 12 and 14.

1194
00:54:25.550 --> 00:54:29.949
It's, it's interesting because, Oh wow. You know, I, you know, again,

1195
00:54:29.989 --> 00:54:32.699
this kind of just never lined up. and both of

1196
00:54:32.760 --> 00:54:36.119
them actually have music chops, so they may appreciate it.

1197
00:54:36.820 --> 00:54:38.880
If you've planned it, then maybe that's something we need

1198
00:54:38.940 --> 00:54:42.500
to put on. But you said no. Yeah, there's a

1199
00:54:42.519 --> 00:54:44.900
lot in this show that I probably shouldn't have been

1200
00:54:45.000 --> 00:54:47.000
watching at the time that it came out, if you

1201
00:54:47.019 --> 00:54:49.480
think of the F and the S's that were going

1202
00:54:49.639 --> 00:54:51.539
on throughout that entire film. And the fact that we

1203
00:54:51.559 --> 00:54:53.679
got through this show without saying any of those words,

1204
00:54:53.739 --> 00:54:56.380
I'd have to say is impressive. Because there's a lot

1205
00:54:56.400 --> 00:54:58.400
of quotes that we could have done on the show

1206
00:54:58.820 --> 00:55:01.000
that had some blue language in it.

1207
00:55:03.320 --> 00:55:06.780
So we matched on our rating. That's awesome. So, Dub,

1208
00:55:07.139 --> 00:55:09.360
thanks for being on the show. I'm so glad you

1209
00:55:09.380 --> 00:55:11.219
could be a part of this. And just, I mean,

1210
00:55:11.539 --> 00:55:14.420
what's it been, 28 years since we lasted a Blues

1211
00:55:14.440 --> 00:55:15.739
Brothers routine together?

1212
00:55:16.340 --> 00:55:16.630
Yes.

1213
00:55:17.150 --> 00:55:19.929
And it's funny, when I got married, I wanted to

1214
00:55:19.969 --> 00:55:22.590
talk to you about sneaking that in to do like

1215
00:55:22.630 --> 00:55:24.969
a bit during the wedding. But I think I would

1216
00:55:24.989 --> 00:55:26.309
have probably got divorced the next day.

1217
00:55:27.070 --> 00:55:29.949
Yeah, that would have been taking the light off of

1218
00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:31.320
the wrong person for the day. Exactly.

1219
00:55:33.579 --> 00:55:36.070
Sometimes I wish I could go back in time. Like, Oh,

1220
00:55:36.090 --> 00:55:38.250
if I could have just done that over, we couldn't

1221
00:55:38.269 --> 00:55:39.530
just went out and did two songs.

1222
00:55:39.789 --> 00:55:42.039
We already had a tux on to throw some sunglasses

1223
00:55:42.219 --> 00:55:46.250
on and I could have just, you know, yeah. Man,

1224
00:55:46.309 --> 00:55:49.590
I got to thank you for giving me this opportunity.

1225
00:55:50.250 --> 00:55:54.360
Completely appreciate coming on the show. You know, if hopefully

1226
00:55:54.559 --> 00:55:57.239
the audience appreciates what I've come to the table with

1227
00:55:57.280 --> 00:55:59.380
and maybe the vibe and you'll ask me back and

1228
00:55:59.400 --> 00:56:01.480
we'll find another good one that we can connect on.

1229
00:56:01.559 --> 00:56:04.590
But love the show. Love you, obviously, man. And look

1230
00:56:04.610 --> 00:56:05.929
forward to playing with you again sometime soon.

1231
00:56:06.230 --> 00:56:08.510
Awesome. Well, that wraps it up for this week's episode.

1232
00:56:08.690 --> 00:56:10.510
Thank you so much for listening. And a big thank

1233
00:56:10.550 --> 00:56:13.309
you for Dub for joining us today. If you enjoyed

1234
00:56:13.349 --> 00:56:16.250
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1235
00:56:16.289 --> 00:56:17.110
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00:56:17.269 --> 00:56:17.670
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1237
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1240
00:56:25.829 --> 00:56:30.710
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1241
00:56:30.949 --> 00:56:34.829
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1242
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1243
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1244
00:56:39.699 --> 00:56:43.739
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